Re: shr-mailto (was Re: `W D D' in shr rendered article)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> Oops, I've reinvented the wheel.  But I tried `browse-url-mail'
> and found there's no user agent that inserts `body' automatically.
> Try this:
>
> (browse-url-mail
>  "mailto:nobody@example.com?subject=test&body=Hello%20World%0d%0a")
>
> As for `message-user-agent', `sendmail-user-agent' and
> `gnus-user-agent', `C-c C-y' yanks the body.

If I `C-y C-y' after evaling that, I get

----
nobody writes:

----

If I then `M-u' to undo, I get

----
Hello World
----

Er...  what!?  That not only seems not quite right, but rather weird,
too.

> But shouldn't it be there from the beginning?  The body part of a
> mailto link is not rendered normally, and maybe no one knows that `C-c
> C-y' is the command to yank its body.  WDYT?

Yes, I think the body part should be there by default.  But I've never
actually seen a mailto link with a body part.  :-)

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